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Federal (USV)

Private

Sylvanus C. Waters

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: New Hampshire

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th New Hampshire Infantry

Before Antietam

From Fitzwilliam, NH, he enlisted on 25 November 1861 at age 21 in Company F, 6th New Hampshire Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery during or before 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 Service from Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave. He's also listed on the Soldier's Monument in Fitzwilliam, NH.

Birth

c. 1840; Jaffrey, NH

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 4326]

2 State of New Hampshire, Adjutant-General's Office, and Augustus D. Ayling, AG, Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1866 , 2 Volumes, Concord: Ira C. Evans, Public Printer, 1895, pg. 342 [AotW citation 20292]

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